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Because it's a sexist society. Writers don't think about women with agency and the marketing will tell them not to have female main characters because it won't sell.

That said, western female characters aren't a whole lot better.

Famously Remember Me had it's budget cut by 66% because the developers insisted on making the main character a black chick. Then the game flopped.

Up to you if you want to blame society or the developers not funding it.

Then they wanted to make Life Is Strange and couldn't get backing from any major publisher so they had to release it as an episodic game to cut costs.

And sticking with comics and superheroes, you can count the good main female characters on one hand. So man are just "Take the male version and call it a girl" like Supergirl and Hawkgirl and the 500 female spidermen.

There's both Black Cat and Catwoman who are the same fucking character.

And then there's bland asshats like Captain Marvel and Black Widow who have no consistent personality.

So you're left with Wonder Woman and Harely Quinn and while writers have turned Harely into a goldmine it's impossible to ignore that she just started out as "Female Joker, also domesitic abuse victim"

Turns out 40 year old men who hang out exclusively with 40 year old men talking to marketing departments run by 40 year old men trying to sell things to 15 year old boys aren't thinking about strong women beyond the hero's victims and girlfriends when they write stories.